APNewsBreak: Woman accused of flight school fraud

By AMY TAXIN
Associated Press
Published November 30, 2011

LOS ANGELES – Immigration officials have arrested a woman accused of bringing foreign students to train at her Southern California flight school on fraudulent visas and without government authorization.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 28-year-old Karena Chuang was arrested Wednesday in Rancho Cucamonga and is charged with visa fraud for allegedly enrolling students from Egypt, Sri Lanka and Taiwan at her La Verne-based flight school.

Immigration authorities say Chuang's Blue Diamond Aviation school was not authorized to receive foreign students.

Authorities say Chuang posed as the students' cousin to help them apply for visas for government-approved flight schools and later had them attend her cheaper school instead.

Chuang is due to appear in federal court Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles. A number listed for her Lake Elsinore home rang to a fax line.

Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/11/30/1 ... z1fDkFALND